Wycliffe (Early) [1850], THE HOLY BIBLE, CONTAINING THE OLD AND NEW TESTAMENTS, WITH THE APOCRYPHAL BOOKS, IN THE EARLIEST ENGLISH VERSIONS MADE FROM THE LATIN VULGATE BY JOHN WYCLIFFE AND HIS FOLLOWERS: Edited by THE REV. JOSIAH FORSHALL, F.R.S. etc. Late Fellow of Exeter College, and SIR FREDERIC MADDEN, K.H. F.R.S. etc. Keeper of the MSS. in the British Museum (OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS, OXFORD) [word count] [B02010].
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CAP. XIX.
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2 Answerende forsothe Job seide, Hou
longe &yogh;ee tormente my lif, and pownen
me with woordis?
3 Lo! ten sithes &yogh;ee
confounde me, and &yogh;ee shame not, opressende
me.
4 Forsothe if I am vnknowende,
with me it shal be, myn vnkunnyng.
5 And
&yogh;ee a&yogh;en me ben rerid, and vndernyme me
with my repreues.
6 Nameli now vnderstondeth,
for God not with euene dom
tormentith me, and with his scourgis
girdith me.
7 Lo! I shal crie sufferende
fors, and no man shal here; I shal crien
out, and ther is not that deme.
8 My sty
he heggide aboute, and I mai not gon
ouer; and in my path he putte dercnesses.
9 He spoilide me my glorie, and he
toc awei the croune fro myn hed.
10 He destro&yogh;ide
me al aboute, and I pershe; and
as to a pullid vp tree he toc awey myn
hope.
11 His wodnesse is wroth a&yogh;en me;
and so me he hadde as his enemy.
12 His
theues camen togidere, and maden to hem
a weie bi me; and besegiden in enuyroun
my tabernacle.
13 He made a ferr my brethren
fro me; and my knowen as alienes
wenten awei fro me.
14 My ne&yogh;h men forsoken
me; and that me hadden knowe
for&yogh;ete me.
15 The comelingus of myn hous
and myn hond wymen as an alien hadden
me; and as a pilgrim I was in the e&yogh;en
of hem.
16 My seruaunt I clepide, and he
answerde not to me; with my propre
mouth I pre&yogh;ede hym.
17 My wif agriside
my breth; and I pre&yogh;ede the sones of my
wombe.
18 Foolys also despisiden me; and
whan I hadde gon awei fro them, thei
`bacbiten to me.
19 Sum time my counseyleris
wlateden me; and whom I most
loouede withstod me.
20 My bon cleuede
to my skin, the flesh wastid; and onli
-- --
the lippis ben lafte aboute my teth.
21 Haueth
reuthe of me, haueth reuthe of me,
nameli, &yogh;ee my frendis; for the hond of
the Lord hath touchid me.
22 Whi pursue
&yogh;ee me, as God; and with my flesh &yogh;ee
be fulfild?
23 Who &yogh;iueth to me, that my
woordis be writen? Who &yogh;iueth to me
24 that thei be grauen in a boc with an
iren pointel, or with a pece of led; or with
a chisell thei be grauen in flint?
25 Forsothe
I wot, that myn a&yogh;eenbiere liueth,
and in the laste dai I am to rise fro the
erthe;
26 and eft shal ben enuyround with
my skin, and in my flesh I shal se God,
my sauere.
27 Whom I myself am to seen,
and myn e&yogh;en ben to beholden, and noon
other. This myn hope is led vp in my
bosum.
28 Whi thanne now sey &yogh;ee, Pursue
wee hym, and the roote of woord finde
wee a&yogh;en hym?
29 Fleeth thanne fro the
face of swerd; for vengere of wickidnesse
is the swerd, and witeth dom to be.
Wycliffe (Early) [1850], THE HOLY BIBLE, CONTAINING THE OLD AND NEW TESTAMENTS, WITH THE APOCRYPHAL BOOKS, IN THE EARLIEST ENGLISH VERSIONS MADE FROM THE LATIN VULGATE BY JOHN WYCLIFFE AND HIS FOLLOWERS: Edited by THE REV. JOSIAH FORSHALL, F.R.S. etc. Late Fellow of Exeter College, and SIR FREDERIC MADDEN, K.H. F.R.S. etc. Keeper of the MSS. in the British Museum (OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS, OXFORD) [word count] [B02010].
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